Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Juliana returned home from a vacation on Corfu, where she and her husband visited King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Once home, Bernhard gave his daughter, Princess Beatrix, her first auto, a Fiat sedan, for passing her high-school final exams. Then, at the horse show in Rotterdam, he saw another daughter, Princess Irene, tie for fourth in the National Junior Championships, and with Juliana watching from the stands, took second place himself in horse training...
...biggest tanker was Niarchos' 45,509-ton World Glory. Two years ago Onassis took the title with his 46,500-ton Al Malik Saud Al-Awal. Early this year-Nkrchos launched the 47,750-ton Spyros Niarchos (named for his late father), which last month in Rotterdam broke all tanker records by discharging a 41,000-ton cargo (287,000 bbls.) in 17 hours 48 minutes...
...Italian Renaissance. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, chosen from 63 collections, including Leningrad's world-famous Hermitage (see color pages). At the same time, Rotterdam's Boymans Museum is exhibiting 268 of Rembrandt's drawings. Best testimony to Rembrandt's enduring attraction: the record-breaking crowds of more than 140,000 European and U.S. tourists who have visited the painting exhibit in its first seven weeks...
TRANS-EUROPEAN PIPELINE to carry oil from Mediterranean to North Sea is planned by Royal Dutch-Shell group. To cost up to $280 million, project is for 30-in. line running 700 miles from Marseilles north through France and Germany to Rotterdam with spur branching off to Paris. Possible connection: a line running from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 185 miles south through Ruhr industrial area...
...that was needed at brand-new St. Paul's Church in The Hague was a statue of St. Paul. Rotterdam Sculptor Jan Vlasblom was commissioned to create a statue of the saint, to stand on a pedestal above the main entrance. But when Sculptor Vlasblom unveiled a full-sized clay model, the bishopric's Roman Catholic Liturgical Commission turned thumbs down. The clerics objected to a hugely exaggerated surplice that engulfed the saint's figure. It "will give superfluous occasion for wonder instead of admiration," complained the commission report. "Believers could never recognize this figure as their...